# Is there something about my configuration isn't right? What did I miss?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-about-my-configuration-isnt-right-what-did-i-miss/159514>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-about-my-configuration-isnt-right-what-did-i-miss/159514 "2018-12-05T11:24:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![sailaja\_sailu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@sailaja\_sailu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sailaja_sailu)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-about-my-configuration-isnt-right-what-did-i-miss/159514/1 "2018-12-05T11:24:41Z")

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Hello there I have some issue to parse kubernetes containers multi lines utilizing [filebeat and logstash](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/filebeat/6.1/migrating-from-logstash-forwarder.html). [kubernetes](https://mindmajix.com/kubernetes-training) log document are situated in/var/log/containers/\*.log and in a json line structure.

Is there something about my configuration isn't right? What did I miss?

filebeat.yml:

```auto
filebeat:
  # List of prospectors to fetch data.
  prospectors:
    -
      paths:
        - /var/log/containers/*.log
      fields: {log_type: containers}
      ignore_older: 5m
      symlinks: true
      json.message_key: log
      json.keys_under_root: true
      json.add_error_key: true
      multiline.pattern: '^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}'
      multiline.match: after
      multiline.negate: true
      document_type: kube-logs
  registry_file: /var/log/containers/filebeat_registry
output:
  logstash:
    hosts: ["logstash-logging:5044"]

```

logstash.conf:

```auto
input {
  beats {
    port => 5044
  }
}

filter {
  if [type] == "kube-logs" {

    date {
      match => ["time", "ISO8601"]
      remove_field => ["time"]
    }
    json {
      source => "message"
    }

    grok {
      match => ["log", "<SOME_PATTERN>"]
      overwrite => ["message"]
    }

}

```

kubernetes container:

```auto
{"log":"11:11:17,740 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.mapWAR - Attaching appender named [FILE-LOG] to Logger[ROOT]\n","stream":"stdout","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.742837362Z"}
{"log":"11:11:17,740 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.mapWAR - End of configuration.\n","stream":"stdout","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.742840277Z"}
{"log":"11:11:17,741 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.mapWAR - Registering current configuration as safe fallback point\n","stream":"stdout","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.742843277Z"}
{"log":"\n another line","stream":"stdout","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.742846485Z"}
{"log":"09-May-2017 11:11:17.756 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.mapWAR nice","stream":"stderr","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.756924376Z"}
{"log":"09-May-2017 11:11:17.757 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.startup.mapWAR great","stream":"stderr","time":"2017-05-09T11:11:17.757465828Z"}

```

Thanks,  
Sailaja.

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**Author:** ![steffens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/steffens/32/79630_2.png) [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-about-my-configuration-isnt-right-what-did-i-miss/159514/2 "2018-12-06T12:35:45Z")

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Which filebeat version are you using?

Does filebeat even start with this configuration? I can't find the input type. The `document_type` configuration has been removed a long time ago.

Better use the docker input. The docker input removes the json envelope before forwarding logs to multiline:

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-something-about-my-configuration-isnt-right-what-did-i-miss/159514/3 "2019-01-03T12:35:49Z")

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